Good idea. I will extract the relevant parts. /Patrik

Also, while on the topic, if there's still blocking done in the bench, we should strive to remove that.

Pushed.

I removed the blocking that was used when initializing the OrderReceiver. There is blocking (await Future) in two more places in the req-response tests. Between the primary and standby matching engine, and in the client, waiting for the reply. I think both these are ok to keep. There should be some difference between the two benchmarks ;-)

In the one-way tests there is no blocking, except for in the client, waiting for the latch.

As an additional bonus I have added on-the-fly generation of charts, URLs to Google Chart API.

Example: http://bit.ly/mPh7wI

I have only done for percentiles. I have some more charts on the shelf.

Nice!!

I have a little 'welcome back from vacation' present for you Viktor. I have added possibility to compare benchmark results. Previously I showed compare by increasing load. http://bit.ly/oKfaJZ

Now it is possible to compare one test with another. http://bit.ly/q8G6f7
Use case: fork join vs. default dispatcher

And most interesting, possibility to compare with historical runs. http://bit.ly/qpi8nw

I think the latter will be very useful when doing tuning, and eventually also for detecting trend deviations when running on our imaginable stable performance test server.

Enable this feature with system property "benchmark.resultDir", and create that directory. Default is "target/benchmark", but the dir must exist to activate this feature. The test results are stored on file.

If you rename a result file to begin with "baseline-" it will always be included in the charts, otherwise the latest 7 runs are displayed.

Wow! This is splendid work Patrik!
VERY well done :-)

Another chart in place. It displays throughput and latency in same graph (2 axis) with increasing load.
Sample: http://bit.ly/pDLv1J

Done
Description of the new features in akka-dev mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/akka-dev/browse_thread/thread/1f970d66a8e57453

Updating tickets (#967, #974, #975, #976, #980, #981, #989, #990, #992, #993, #994, #999, #1000, #1004, #1008, #1011, #1015, #1018, #1022, #1023, #1024, #1025, #1027, #1028, #1029, #1030, #1032, #1033, #1036, #1047, #1053, #1062, #1067, #1068, #1069, #1072, #1075, #1078, #1082, #1102, #1107, #1110, #1111, #1115, #1116, #1121, #1122, #1123, #1124)